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NEW DELHI: Buoyed by the high court judgement over jurisdiction of Delhi government's anti-graft body, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal today said the verdict was a "huge embarrassment" for the Modi dispensation and has strengthened his government's fight against corruption. At an event to mark 100 days of his government, Kejriwal said the high court's order clarifying that the Home Ministry has no rights to interfere in the matters of ACB was a major victory for people of the city.

NEW DELHI: Even as AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa returned to power today, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said the state law department is examining the judgement of the High Court which acquitted her of all charges and the government would take a decision on filing an appeal in the case after receiving the report. "Our law department is examining the judgement of Karnataka High Court. After getting the report from law department, we will decide," Siddaramaiah told reporters here.

BENGALURU: Even as Tamil Nadu gets ready to reinstate J Jayalalithaa as its chief minister, the Karnataka government's top law officer has recommended that a special leave petition be filed "as soon as possible" before the vacation bench of the Supreme Court contesting her recent acquittal in the long-running disproportionate assets case. "I have given my legal opinion to the Karnataka government that the judgement given by the trial court justice John Michael D'Cunha (convicting Jayalalithaa)

CHENNAI: The appeal in the disproportionate assets case against AIADMK supremo Jayalalithaa cannot be 'knee-jerk' and should be analysed from all angles, former Union Minister and senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said. "Appealing cannot be knee-jerk, not appealing (also) cannot be knee-jerk. It is the responsibility of the state government to analyse all angles," Ramesh told reporters here. Rubbishing reports that the Congress government in Karnataka was delaying filing an appeal in the case, he said, "The Karnataka government has been given three months.

SRINAGAR: A year after he observed that any person claiming to be a Hindu or Muslim nationalist was working against "Indianism" triggering a row, a High Court judge here has said that the term used by him was taken out of context by some persons. Justice Muzaffar Hussain Attar said while disposing off a petition last week that "Fascist bent of mind, otherwise, called fascism, is abhorrent to and antithesis of 'idea of India', otherwise called 'Indianism' (Hindustaniat). " His remarks came as further elucidation to an order passed by the Judge in October 2013.

BENGALURU: Karnataka government today said it will take a decision after consulting legal experts on filing an appeal in the Supreme Court against the state High Court verdict acquitting former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and three others in the disproportionate assets case. The state of Karnataka is the sole prosecuting agency in the 19-year disproportionate assets case, which was transferred from Chennai to Bengaluru. "We will consult B V Acharya (Special Public Prosecutor)

CHENNAI : Opposition parties in Tamil Nadu who have been poring over the copy of the order that acquitted Jayalalithaa and three others in the disproportionate assets case, have raised a red flag. Simple arithmetic errors show that the calculated value of disproportionate assets could be much more than what has been mentioned in the order, says DMK Chief M Karunanidhi. "Judge Kumarasamy has said that all loans acquired by Jayalalithaa and others needs to be treated as income.

MELBOURNE: A pretty picture can change our thoughts about the world and make us believe that certain claims are true, according to new research. A series of studies from Victoria University of Wellington have shown that when people evaluate the quality of products, and their past behaviour, they tend to take a rosier view if they have been looking at decorative photographs. Research by Brittany Cardwell examined how photos that are only loosely related to subject matter can make people more likely to believe that claims are true.

NEW DELHI: Swami Aseemanand, accused in the Samjhauta Express bombings of February 2007, had been granted bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court last year because of delays in the trial for which he could not be held responsible, according to a copy of the judgement released on Tuesday. The court also said bail was awarded on account of "procedural delays" attributable to the National Investigation Agency Act and the "substantial time" it would take to complete examination of all the witnesses.

MUMBAI: As a local court is set to pronounce verdict in the hit-and-run case involving the Bollywood superstar Salman Khan on May 6, the film industry is keeping its fingers crossed as an investment of about Rs 200 crore is riding on him. "The film industry is hoping that nothing terrible happens. Either he is pronounced innocent or the least punishment is given," said the trade analyst Komal Nahata . His two upcoming films, "Bajrangi Bhaijaan" which stars Kareena Kapoor and "Prem Ratan Dhan Paayo" opposite Sonam Kapoor , are currently in the last "schedule" of shooting.